The Guardian reports on a 3-year study by the Environmental Justice Foundation which concluded that "Pirate fishing is out of control, depriving some the most world's most vulnerable communities of food and leading to ecological catastrophe,..." On

Rose-colored glasses make everything seem a bit happier, a shade jollier. But Greenpeace is giving you a set of spectacles of a different sort. Fish-Ray glasses that give you the ability to see where and how the fish at your local market are sourced.

At first thought most of us tend to think of the oceans really only getting massively depleted of fish with the dawn of industrial fishing in the latter half of the last century. But as Fred Pearce points out in a new article for New

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch offers a list of fish you can enjoy and those you can't. Many on the list you may or may not enjoy depending on where and how they're caught. However, there are some you just

As easy as plucking fruit from a tree, sperm whales can steal cod off deep sea fishing lines. And they've been caught red handed, er, finned, on video!Deep-sea fishing lines off Sitka, Alaska have been the source for a

It's a no brainer that as game fish species are overfished, the species sizes would shrink. But a new census project highlights just how dramatically the ocean's fish species have diminished in both size and

The effect that warming and ocean acidification will have on coral reefs will be devastating. At particular risk, a new report from World Wildlife Fund points out, is the Coral Triangle in Southeast Asia. Without strong

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Shark finning is the practice of slicing off a shark's fins, valuable for soups, and then tossing the body back to sea. It's wasteful, ecologically harmful, and makes it difficult to track what species are being

A new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) highlights information that is already pretty obvious: fishing gear tossed in the ocean is hurting the marine

The EU Parliament has approved a suggestion to forbid the sale of seal products in the EU, in a bid to stop seal hunting and the brutal methods the hunts have sometimes been party to, including skinning the animals while

According to a new study, if mercury levels continue to rise at the rate they're predicted to rise, the amount of mercury in the Pacific will increase by 50% over the next 40 years. The study also shows just how the

Most TreeHugger readers probably a good handle on the concept that large monocropped fields have lesser biodiversity than more mixed cultivation, and that industrial agriculture uses excessive amounts of fertilizer to

Experts are saying that if depleted fish stocks in the world's oceans are to recover, there needs to be a 20-year fishing ban covering 20-40% of the oceans. Not only would that require cooperation of the fishing

Aquaculture just got a big boost in India. The National Fisheries Development Board is investing some $123 million in the expansion of intensive raising of fish in freshwater ponds and tanks. The goal is to optimize fish yields from about